Due Process

Or permanent limbo?

Ottawa Citizen- Twenty-two years later, federal government still working to deport Ottawa’s Mohamed Harkat

Harkat was arrested on Dec. 10, 2002, in the heated aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, when North American security agencies were under intense pressure to identify and neutralize al-Qaida “sleeper cells.”

He was taken into custody on the strength of a security certificate, a powerful and rarely used instrument of Canada’s immigration law. It allows the government to detain foreign-born terror suspects indefinitely and to present evidence in secret against them.

Harkat spent more than three years in jail, including a year in solitary confinement, and was under strict house arrest years after that.

9 Replies to “Due Process”

  1. When even the embarrassingly liberal Supreme Court of Canada thinks you’re a terrorist…you’re a terrorist.

    “Before his arrest, he worked as a pizza delivery man and gas station attendant while also developing an expensive casino gambling habit. “

    Atta boy! Helping to grow Canada’s future with every pull on the lever.

  2. Well, permanent limbo sounds like one of the activities on Stephen King’s Caribbean cruise, so this look more like due process. Hey, when you’re making fine cheese, due process can take longer than you think. And are human rights not finer than cheese?

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